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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Roussea to Foucault by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Hicks, S. R. C. (2010). Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Chapter One What Postmodernism Is Location 230 targets: “All my analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human existence.”[ Location 302 of those constructions. Postmodern accounts of human nature are consistently collectivist, holding […]
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Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger by Lee Braver
Braver, L. (2012). Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Introduction Page 1 Ordinary language philosophy and what has been called “post- analytic” philosophy are deeply indebted to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, while postmodernism and post- structuralism arose in the wake of Heidegger’s later thought. Page 2 Heidegger and […]
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The Chomsky – Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Foucault, M. (2006). The Chomsky – Foucault Debate: On Human Nature [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com 1. – Human Nature: Justice vs. Power Page 4 Chomsky: I would claim then that this instinctive knowledge, if you like, this schematism that makes it possible to derive complex and intricate knowledge on the basis of very […]
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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Morgenson, G. (2011). Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Introduction Location 54 It is a story of the consequences of regulators who are captured by the institutions they are charged with regulating. Prologue Page 1 An owner in every home. It was the […]
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Hofstadter, R. (2012). Anti-Intellectualism in American Life [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Part I: Introduction Chapter 1 Anti-intellectualism in Our Time Page 4 After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it “the vulgarization which has […]
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Bryson, B. (2003). A Short History of Nearly Everything [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Part I: Lost In the Cosmos 1: How to Build a Universe Page 12 Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn’t know what it was when they had found it, and hadn’t described or […]
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The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Baudrillard
Baudrillard, J. (2016). The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com Introduction to the First Edition Page 22 As a result, instead of Marxian use- values and exchange- values, consumables become sign- values. Page 23 However, in Baudrillard’s view, it is the code, […]